PKI Job Trends in South Wales

Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term PKI in permanent job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited PKI over the 6 months leading up to 1 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 85
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Permanent jobs citing PKI 2 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 0.22% - 0.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.90% - 0.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - -
Wales median annual salary £65,000 - -

All Generic Skills
South Wales

PKI falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 222 165 346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 24.00% 48.25% 31.26%
Number of salaries quoted 106 97 237
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £26,994
25th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £35,195
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,393 £46,604
Median % change year-on-year -0.78% +8.13% +2.44%
75th Percentile £68,453 £67,500 £61,445
90th Percentile £85,000 £74,144 £72,433
Wales median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -

PKI
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing PKI relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

PKI job vacancy trend in South Wales

PKI
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PKI.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing PKI

PKI
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing PKI within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 1 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff - 2 £65,000 - 1
PKI
Wales

PKI
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Advisory Board
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk
1 2 (100.00%) VMware